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The solution is to make companies pay people for their time during interviews, at an hourly rate equivalent to compensation for the position. Everyone else in t

The solution is to make companies pay people for their time during interviews, at an hourly rate equivalent to compensation for the position. Everyone else in the interview is getting paid by the company, after all. Suddenly, managers, hiring committees, and recruiters will stop wasting people’s time and everyone will know what to expect to get paid!

freedomben 6y ago
That's an interesting idea, tho I expect it would have the unintended consequence of making it really hard to get an interview.
- Teever 6y ago
  That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is that prospective employers would stop wasting the time of applicants.
pdimitar 6y ago
I'd love that but I am pretty sure it won't ever happen. A compromising variant I found is to make public the GitHub repos where I did homework assignments, with the company name removed and with the README enriched to clearly explain what was the task and how was it successfully done (although I do that preliminarily regardless). At one point 4 companies told me that they actually went through my accumulated interview assignments in GitHub and liked them and wanted a HR/manager interview without the tech interview before, which was a pleasant surprise.
Nasrudith 6y ago
That brings to mind a funny hypothetical niche of "interview tricksters" who lack qualifications but can land an interview sustainably. Probably not sustainable and they would be incentivized to bullshit their way into a full time job (like normal status quo really) but still pretty funny. It is essentially a counterpart of the joke abuse of the current system of building software by giving out pieces as "code interview questions" and never hiring anybody. Actually being able to devise and intergrate such a thing would probably be cheaper and less effort to do the work yourself.

freedomben 6y ago

That's an interesting idea, tho I expect it would have the unintended consequence of making it really hard to get an interview.

Teever 6y ago
That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is that prospective employers would stop wasting the time of applicants.

pdimitar 6y ago

I'd love that but I am pretty sure it won't ever happen. A compromising variant I found is to make public the GitHub repos where I did homework assignments, with the company name removed and with the README enriched to clearly explain what was the task and how was it successfully done (although I do that preliminarily regardless). At one point 4 companies told me that they actually went through my accumulated interview assignments in GitHub and liked them and wanted a HR/manager interview without the tech interview before, which was a pleasant surprise.

Nasrudith 6y ago

That brings to mind a funny hypothetical niche of "interview tricksters" who lack qualifications but can land an interview sustainably. Probably not sustainable and they would be incentivized to bullshit their way into a full time job (like normal status quo really) but still pretty funny. It is essentially a counterpart of the joke abuse of the current system of building software by giving out pieces as "code interview questions" and never hiring anybody. Actually being able to devise and intergrate such a thing would probably be cheaper and less effort to do the work yourself.